Best Practices

DOOH in Convenience stores: Specs, Audiences and Inspiration

October 24th, 2017
by
Campsite

Convenience stores are local neighborhood retail locations that are frequented by people of all ages who are on the go. Whether it's to buy snacks, lottery tickets or cigarettes, each location has a set of loyal customers. Customers visit their local store up to ten times a month; which can become a well-established habit. This provides advertisers with the opportunity to have repeated impressions on their prospective customers and achieve a greater reach in very specific areas… particularly if it’s Lotto Day (yes, dwell time really does spike during those days!)

Environment Review

Screen Placement

Behind the counter

AVG. Dwell Time

120 seconds

Proximity to Screen

3-5 metres

Screen Dimension & Orientation

32” LCD landscape

Suggested Ad Creative Length

10 - 30 seconds

Why choose the convenience store environment?

There are 23,000 convenience stores in the country and 1 in 3 Canadians shop there every day! An average convenience store has 500 people visit on a daily basis. Need we say more?

For the Repeat Exposure

Due to the frequency of repeated visits, these impressions lead to greater ad recall. While in line or at the cash, customers are exposed to the ads and have no opportunity to escape them or perceive them as intrusive.

For the diverse audience

Since a convenience store has a loyal customer base, target marketing can be carried out based on the demographics of a neighbourhood. Whether it is an ethnic, young, mature, family-oriented, professional, or other person, there are many options to ensure you reach your target market.

Specifications

Every supplier has slightly different screen specifications and format support, but not to worry. Just upload a HD version of your creative in the right orientation and we’ll automatically generate creatives converted to the right format and resized to fit every supplier’s specs. Please note that in this environment, the ad creative will most likely share the screen with content such as weather information and news ticker.

DIMENSIONS
1920 X 1080 pixels (width X height)

FILE FORMAT
Video (H264) and image (JPG or PNG)

FILE SIZE
Less than 50MB per 15 seconds

QUALITY
Best possible, 12 mbps maximum

AUDIO
No Audio

Inspiration

Advertising in Convenience Stores means that you are reaching out to people directly at the point of sale, so this is a great environment for any budget that want to instill impulse buys. It’s also a great place to drive community incentives and local strategies.

Lotto

On-the-go local customers can be very receptive when presented with an attractive opportunity. How wouldn’t want to win a trip or $20,000? Exactly. This lotto is precisely what can trigger an impulse buy. Moreover, when it involves blue skies and a flamingo, the message is bound to be even more effective.

Metro

Advertisements from a local news outlet are a great fit for this environment. Convenience stores are regular pit stops where various members of the community often run into each other. Close to the customer’s residence or place of work, they are good venues for regional campaigns, such as the nightly news.

Valspar / lowe’s

Highlighting easy solutions and making suggestions for the customer’s daily life also hits close to home. Convenience stores naturally come into the daily flow of your audience’s schedule and, with repeated exposure, can truly make an impact on their path-to-purchase to other local stores. Here, Lowe’s makes a very straight forward suggestion about paint quality; chances are that next time you’ll be in the paint aisle, you’ll notice this brand.

Montreal, October 24, 2017 - Campsite Global announced today a partnership between Campsite and Native Touch, leader in data driven mobile advertising. Not only will this alliance allow the programmatic platform to accurately convert location-based insights into solid targeting opportunities, it reinforces Campsite’s forward-thinking commitment to ensure the highest industry standards for DOOH by offering unified and objective mobile audience data, regardless of the supplier